Glossary

What delegating to this validator has returned over the last 7 days, annualised: APR without compounding, APY with.

The series is what the chain actually paid delegators, already net of the validator take and of childkey redistribution, measured against the exact stake the chain used as the denominator. The only difference between the two figures is the compounding assumption: APR is the number most explorers publish, often labelled APY, while APY is the more honest one for a passive alpha staker, since dividends restake into the pool. Annualisation uses each subnet's own tempo rather than a flat epoch count. Exactly 10000 means the real figure was clamped, not that it is precisely 10000%. A hotkey with no dividends in the window reads 0, and stale values are never carried forward. The list figure is the stake-weighted average of the validator's per-subnet rows.

What the validator paid out over the last full day, in TAO: the first figure is what its delegators shared, the second what it kept as commission.

A single day, not a rate, so it moves with the stake behind the hotkey and with what its subnets emitted that day: a large validator out-earns a small one at the same APY. The childkey-take slice is counted inside these figures, not on top of them. A validator running a 0% take reads 0 on its own line while still paying its delegators in full. Only the validator's own page carries them, so a list of validators compares yields instead.

How many delegators are staking to the validator.

What proportion of all validator stake on the network this one validator controls.

Same slippage-aware valuation as Total Stake. The list only sums validators with at least 1000 τ, so the visible set adds to ~100%. A validator's own page can read slightly lower than the list, because the two do not always count the same set. Validators under 1000 τ have no page of their own.

The commission the validator keeps out of its delegators' rewards.

The TAO a validator earned on one subnet over the last 7 days, split three ways: what went to its nominators, what it kept as commission, and the part that came from childkey take.

Amounts, not rates: they scale with the stake behind the hotkey, which is why the APY sitting beside them can be high on a small line and modest on a large one. Blank until the subnet has synced, which is not the same as zero. The childkey figure is a slice of the other two, so adding all three double-counts it.

The two halves of a validator's total stake: TAO staked on root, and alpha staked across subnets (valued in TAO).

The alpha half carries the same slippage-aware valuation as Total Stake, so it moves with pool depth as well as with price.

The validator's root stake counted the way the chain counts it for emission, where TAO on root does not weigh 1:1 against alpha.

A scaled TAO amount, not a ratio and not a second stake bucket, so never add it to the stake columns. Same γ as the subnet Root Proportion.

The split of a validator's own stake between root and alpha, drawn as a bar. It says nothing about the validator's size relative to others, which is Dominance.

Everything a validator has behind it, root stake plus alpha across every subnet, expressed in TAO.

Alpha is valued at what it would really fetch on exit, position by position, not at flat spot and not at the moving price. So it reads lower than a naive Σ(alpha × price) for large positions, and lower still than EMA-based explorers. The Accounts table values alpha exactly the same way, so the two are directly comparable. It is a snapshot from the last sync.